The Time is Not Yet Ripe
A new edition of this high-life political comedy from 1912 in which the forces of socialism, …
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A new edition of this high-life political comedy from 1912 in which the forces of socialism, …
Louis Esson (1879–1943), influenced by W. B. Yeats, pursued the idea of Australian folk drama on the model of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Esson met W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge while travelling, and both advised him, against his inclination, to …
View Books by Louis EssonRay Lawler was thrust into prominence when his play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, in which he appeared in the role of Barney, became a hit for the Union Theatre Repertory Company in 1955, and subsequently toured with enormous success throughout …
View Books by Ray LawlerRay Lawler's revised script (2012) of his (and Australia's) most famous play, in which two larrikin …
Teacher Resource EssayTwo couples set out to betray their partners... A lover returns from the past and a husband doesn…
EssayAndrew Bovell is an award-winning writer for theatre, film and television. His AWGIE award-winning play Speaking in Tongues has been seen throughout Australia as well as in Europe and the US and Bovell adapted it for the screen as Lantana. Both the …
View Books by Andrew BovellAlma De Groen was born in New Zealand in 1941 and moved to Australia at the age of twenty-four. De Groen is the author of many plays, of which The Rivers of China is probably the best known. It won the Premier's Literary Award for Drama in both New …
View Books by Alma De GroenIn 1923 the writer Katherine Mansfield went to the guru Gurdjieff in Fontainebleau in the hope that …
David Williamson’s first full-length play, The Coming of Stork, premiered at Melbourne's La Mama Theatre in 1970. He went on to pen over thirty plays and become Australia’s most successful playwright. His plays have been produced throughout …
View Books by David WilliamsonA young policeman’s first day on duty becomes a violent and highly charged initiation into law …
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